One of the big benefits of deploying applications to Windows Azure is being able to scale them on demand. What if you could automate this process based on traffic or number of requests? This article explains the different approaches that can be taken to achieve this…
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PowerPoint presentations for the Windows Azure OSS summits in India
For those who attended the Windows Azure OSS Summits (Mumbai, Pune, Bangalore) in India, we just uploaded the PowerPoint presentations used during the different sessions, including: 1. Windows Azure Overview. 2. Building Hybrid Cloud Architectures 3. The OSS Developers Story 4. The OSS Data Story 5. Windows Azure and node.js They can be found here:…
Design Patterns, Anti-Patterns and Windows Azure
Please pay special attention to this pattern to avoid: "Running legacy servers using VM Roles". Click here to open link…
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MSDN Magazine November 2012 – WAMS: A Robust Back End for Your Device Applications
In this month´s Windows Azure Insider column for MSDN Magazine, Bruno and I talk about Windows Azure Mobile Service, which abstracts many of the common tasks associated with developing solutions for device applications based on asynchronous calls. I hope that you enjoy it and find it helpful. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj721590.aspx.